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Bicycle Meals: Koreatown-based volunteers deliver food to unhoused Angelenos, but can they keep it up?


Bicycle Meals: Koreatown-based volunteers deliver food to unhoused Angelenos, but can they keep it up?
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Bicycle Meals volunteers prepare to head out and deliver meals to unhoused residents in Koreatown.
Photo by Angel Carreras.
Three days each week in Koreatown, you’ll see a pack of cyclists wearing overstuffed backpacks and zipping toward people living on the streets. They belong to Bicycle Meals, a local mutual aid group that’s been serving the neighborhood’s unhoused residents since August 2020.
“Our main goal is feeding the homeless every day. We’re almost there,” says Bicycle Meals’ founder Mike Pak, who previously launched a running club and burger joint with friends. ....

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Mutual aid groups help L.A. residents in need amid COVID-19


It starts with a phone call from the 707 area code.
“Hello, my name is Damián Diaz. I’m calling on behalf of No Us Without You.”
From his end of the line, Diaz often hears the hurried shuffling of someone stirring, as if his call is what this person has been waiting for. Sometimes he’s put on speaker and can hear a voice call out, “Please, mijo. Come here. I need you to translate.”
As part of the enrollment process for No Us Without You LA, a Boyle Heights-based nonprofit that provides food and support for back-of-house hospitality workers without legal status who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Diaz begins with a series of questions to verify employment history: “Where did you work? How long haven’t you worked? Do you have a pay stub to prove that you worked?” ....

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